Tom,
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com> writes:
> > A customer just pinged me wondering how it was that a BitmapAnd node was
> > reporting 0 tuples when the Bitmap Heap Scan above it showed it had in
> > fact generated tuples.
>
> > While this is mentioned in the docs, I think it would be very helpful to
> > have ANALYZE spit out "N/A" instead of 0 for these nodes.
>
> That would break code that tries to parse that stuff, eg depesz.com.
I don't believe Jim was suggesting that we back-patch such a change.
Changing it in a new major release seems entirely reasonable.
Thanks!
Stephen
